Proposition Summary

Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Amends Article IX, Section 6, of the State Constitution. Increases required State support for public schools to One Hundred Eighty Dollars per year for each pupil in average daily attendance, of which each local school district shall receive not less than One Hundred Twenty Dollars per pupil. To become operative July 1, 1953.

Proposition Number

2

Year

1952

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 2996392; A: 65.4; N: 1582807; B: 34.6

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

Code Sections Affected

Amended Cal. Const. art. IX, section 6.

For Author

Mrs. P. D. Bevil, President, California Congress of Parents and Teachers; Assemblyman Francis Dunn, Jr., Chairman, Assembly Committee on Education, California State Legislature; Arthur Corey, Executive Secretary, California Teachers Association

Against Author

Von T. Ellsworth, Ph.D., Director, Research Department, California Farm Bureau Federation; A. C. Hardison, LL.D., President, California Taxpayers Association

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